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There is the surveyor who dreams of a membership in Muirfield golf club. There is the pushy Stockbridge mother. There is the intellectual lady who sees herself as part of a much larger world.

In this latest installment of Alexander McCall Smith's ever-delightful and perennially best-selling series, amateur sleuth and philosopher Isabel Dalhousie is called upon to help when a matchm

Emma Woodhouse's widowed father is an anxious man, obsessed with nutrition and the latest vitamins.

The delightful seventeenth installment of the ever-popular, perennially best-selling No.

When writer Paul Stewart heads to the idyllic Italian town of Montalcino to finish his already late book, it seems like the perfect escape from stressful city life.

Akimbo goes to the rescue of a zoologist who is injured on his father's game preserve.

On the African game preserve where his father works, Akimbo devises a dangerous plan to capture a ring of elephant poachers.

When Akimbo and his park ranger father unintentionally capture a lion cub near an African game park, Akimbo wants to keep the cub.

On a trip to the snake park with his Uncle Peter, Akimbo has an adventure involving a deadly green mamba snake.

Von Igelfeld is quite pleased with his role as a visiting scholar at Cambridge, even if his English colleagues can be difficult to comprehend.

After a patient dies accidentally, an impeccably credentialed doctor is accused of fraudulent involvement with a new drug.

In London's Pimlico neighborhood lies a tenement described in architectural guides as "a building of no interest whatsoever." But the residents of Corduroy Mansions--including a lite

When her niece Cat travels to a wedding in Italy, Isabel agrees to fill in at Cat's delicatessen.

McCall Smith delivers a collection of stories about dating, with emotions running from the thrill of finding happiness to the humiliation and loneliness of rejection.

When the ever ethical Isabel Dalhousie bumps into Minty Auchterlonie for the first time in years, she is skeptical (again) of Minty's integrity.